Managing Happiness

This course expands the definition of the “book” to include scrolls and albums, focusing on the reading experience of a variety of formats in Japan. You will begin by examining rare and beautifully preserved manuscripts in the Harvard Art Museums in an introduction exploring the material properties of Japanese books and scrolls, binding techniques, and important terminology. An examination of the illustrated scroll…

Build practical deep learning skills for Python-savvy professionals. Learn how neural networks are structured, trained, and evaluated—and how choices like architecture, regularization, and learning rate affect performance. Explore transfer and self-supervised learning (autoencoders). Build models from scratch and learn to diagnose behavior and generalization.

Examine best practices in child and family policies, advocacy, financing, and pathways to scale—learning how to generate innovative, scalable intervention strategies that supports early childhood development. Together, Harvard University and UNICEF bring global experience from communities to policy makers, evidence and experts from around the world.